{"id":8231,"date":"2012-11-24T17:51:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T12:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2012-11-24T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T12:21:31","slug":"next-few-months-of-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/next-few-months-of-travel.html","title":{"rendered":"Next few months of travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been bound to home (almost) for a few months now. Ever since my visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/paintedstork.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/Bhutan\/G00009STlk9QxhuU\/\">Bhutan<\/a> in September, there hasn&#8217;t been much of travel lately, except for the short drive to <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/great-ford-endeavour-drive-coorg.html\">Coorg<\/a> with Ford India two weeks ago. With the winters settled in that&#8217;s about to change. The days of travel are here.<\/p>\n<p>In two days, work will be taking me to the ghats of <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/compilation-of-posts-on-varanasi.html\">Varanasi<\/a>, where I am spending a few days photographing life on the ghats. Later, after a quick stopover at Agra, I am hoping to spend a few days again on the bank of Ganga at <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/compilation-of-posts-on-rishikesh.html\">Rishikesh<\/a>, watching the river flow out of the mountains and attending a very gratifying aarti in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Ghats of Varanasi\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/varanasi-boat-ganges.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A short trip to Hampi will follow early in December and a longer tour across Rajasthan at the end of the year. It is going to be a busy, on-the-road month of December.<\/p>\n<p>Late in January, I am going back to Ladakh &#8211; a place where I have made many long journeys, this time to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/ladakh-pangong-lake-2.html\">frozen Pangong Lake<\/a> in the harshest of the winters that one can experience in India.<\/p>\n<p>All of these are places that I have visited in the past, and are places where I always love to keep going back. I am looking forward to days of travel in the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been bound to home (almost) for a few months now. Ever since my visit to Bhutan in September, there hasn&#8217;t been much of travel lately, except for the short drive to Coorg with Ford India two weeks ago. With the winters settled in that&#8217;s about to change. The days of travel are here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-varanasi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-28L","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8233,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}